Becoming a digital scholar

19 May 2016
Becoming a digital scholar
University of Buckingham
Professor Rhona Sharpe
Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development

The Editor’s perspective: Targeting a journal

New objectives
• Make informed decisions about using
networked technologies
• Communicate your research to a wider
audience
• Increase the impact of your work and
potentially increase citations
• Make an active and positive contribution to
your developing digital footprint

Scholarship
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Scholarship
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Scholarship

H818: The networked practitioner
Open Studio, multimedia posters, virtual
conference, badges, Cloudworks . . . beyond

Digital scholarship
Digital Networked Open

Author 1 book
Co-editor 2 books
Editor for 3 journals
10 book chapters
8 referred journal papers
26 reports
12 invited keynotes
20+ conference papers
16 funded research projects
Reviewer for 10+ journals
Reviewer for international
grants & awards

h-index of 16
Chair a network of 2000
researchers
Author for OER and
(M)OOCs
Editor for an open
online journal
Member of virtual
project steering groups
Website manager for
project dissemination
Online tutor and guest
lecturer

I´m a PhD student … in a super formal, controlled
course structure, with all the traditional barriers
that validate or not my progress. …
… So, the solution I found was engaging with the
academic community, as much as I can, through
Blogs, Moocs (from respected universities), Twitter,
FB, LinkId and networks like Academia, etc.
They are my community, my peers, my tutors and
they are from different disciplines, helping me with
different perspectives and with that enrich my
research.
Andreana commenting on ‘The control of your network’, EdTechie blog, 8 February 2016

Possible definitions of digital
scholarship
1. Changes in scholarly practices brought
about by digital and networked
technologies.
2. Scholarly practices that take place in a
digital, networked and open world
3. Enriching research perspectives by
engaging with a community of scholars

Your turn to introduce yourselves
Collect a name in every square
You can use the same name twice
But only one name per square
Collect examples of digital scholarly practices
When you have a name in every square
– shout ‘Bingo’!

Examples of digital scholarship
In groups
Share the examples of digital scholarly
practices that you collected.
 Which were the most common?
 Any that are new to you?
Be prepared to feedback
1. Examples of digital scholarly practices that
you have in your groups
2. And examples that you would like to know
more about.

Digital, networked, open
Open access publishing
Open educational resources
Open source software
Digital scholarly profiles
Research communication
Online research tools
Reference management
Personal learning networks
Digital publishing models
Open data
Open courses
Lazy web
Social citation
Online conferences
Measuring impact
Digital data analysis
Open peer review
Open licensing

What kind of digital scholar are you?

Openness options
1. I will only publish in open access journals
2. I will share all learning material that I create
and own openly online, as soon as I create
it.
3. I release some resources openly if it’s not
too much extra work
4. I have concerns about intellectual property
and releasing my content openly
Unit 2, The Networked Practitioner, Open University

‘Open access' aims to make the
findings of academic research
available electronically, immediately,
without charge and free from most
copyright or licensing restrictions.
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/rsrch/oa/
Open access publishing

Claims of open access publishing
 Increases visibility and opportunities for use
 Increases citations and personal impact

Claims of traditional publishing

What are the advantages and
disadvantages of open access publishing?
societyauthors
funders
students
publisherslibraries

Benefits of open access publishing
• Access to information from anywhere
• Increased visibility of researchResearchers
• Increased return on investment
• Increased visibility
Funding
agencies
• Increased access for target audience
• Financially more attractiveLibraries
• Unrestricted access to materials
• Equality of learning
Teachers and
students
• Access to knowledge
• Access to publically funded research
Citizens and
society
• Enhanced and accelerated research
cycleScience

Types of open access publishing
Gold – publisher providers open access
Green – self-archiving in open repositories
Hybrid – authors charged a fee for open access
Fair OA – authors pay article processing fees –
if they can.

Open Access and the REF
Which publications have to be available on
Open Access?
Journal
articles
Conference
articles
(with an ISSN)
Books &
book
chapters

Open access research for the REF
Journal articles and conference proceedings must
be available in an open-access form to be eligible for
the next REF.
In practice, this means that these outputs must be
uploaded to an institutional or subject repository.
This requirement will apply to journal articles and
conference proceedings accepted for publication after
1 April 2016” Now!

True or false?
 Publishing your work open access increases citations.
sparceurope.org/oaca_table/
 It is more expensive to publish open access doaj.org/
 You have less rights if you publish open access
https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
 Open access journals lack quality and prestige
altmetrics.org/manifesto/
Inspired by ‘Take control of your Phd journey: learn about open access
publishing’, Arctic University of Norway, Slideshare

NEW FORMS OF WRITING
AND PUBLISHING

Publication
as a process
– as well as
a product

Your experiences
A. I have published in academic journals
B. I have a paper in preparation
C. I have an idea for a paper

article
keynotes
editing
reviewing
projects
reading
reports
chapters
conferences
idea

article
idea
“I write to
develop
my ideas”
“I publish
to share
my ideas”

From gestation to publication
In press
In
submission
In
preparation
In
gestation

Opportunities to publish
proposal
lit
review
abstract
poster
book
review

Digital tools for boundary management

Scholarly communication: blogs
Audience
Community
Persistence!

Scholarly communication: Twitter
Web links
Live
tweeting
Tweetchats
#hashtags
communities

Scholarly communication: website
Promotion
Consistency
Authorship
Referencing

Scholarly communication: (M)OOCs
Public engagement in research

Sharing scholarly outputs
Choose one scholarly output to share
1. Check you have permission to publish
2. Select a place to store
3. Choose an appropriate Creative Commons License
4. Add tags or keywords to aid discoverability
5. Choose a place to share with hashtag
#digitalscholar
proposal
lit
review
abstract
poster
book
review

1. Check you have permission
If it has been previously published, check you
have permission to share online.
(note: being the author is not sufficient)
If it has not been previously published, check it
is all your own e.g. images, figures.
Check the copyright restrictions on any
component parts.

2. Select a place to store
Think about format e.g. Slideshare / Prezi for
presentations, Vimeo for videos.
Think about community e.g. ResearchGate
or LinkedIn

3. Choose a Creative Commons license
Decide if you want to allow
- Redistribution
- Versioning
- Commercial use

5. Choose where to share
Think about audience
E.g, Twitter, Facebook, community groups

6. Invite friends to comment and share
Well done!

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